Why bomb Iraq ?

[WAKE_UP_CALL]

This refers to the recent bombing of Iraq by US and UK warplanes.

The question is WHY?

Robin Cook:Iraqi missiles are a danger to the pilots.The pilots are not safe to do their job.

Tony Benn: The US and UK do not have mandates of international law to bomb Iraq.

UN: Silence

Egypt, India, New Zealand,Turkey, France, Germany, China and Russia: all have condemned this attack.

Israel: Iraq is no longer a threat.

George Bush: This is a routine airstrike.


The no fly zone ?

1. What is the no fly zone?.......to protect Shi'ite Muslims and Kurds.
Then why is the US and UK planes not protecting the Kurds that are being bombed by Turkish planes?

2. Has it been approved by UN?......see above reference to Tony Benn.


Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?

Who supplied Iraq with nuclear weapons in the first instance?
Why is Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and India, all are allowed to build up their nuclear arms?
Isnt the US enhancing its nuclear defence system?

Other considerations...................

Is Bush Junior continuing his fight that his father fought in?

Or

Is Iraq a threat to Israel ?

[mhnew]

Iraq is not a threat to Israel and never was under Saddam's rule.

As for this bombing it has been going on during the whole clinton administration and just now coming into focus now that a republican is in power. It has been reported that US and UK had bomber Iraq more times since the war than NATO did in its war with Serbia. This is from a Britiush documentary I saw on Iraq.

To everyone, if you are concerned for Iraqi people please show it but please don't make the mistake of thinking Saddam was or is right. He was and is an autocrat who should be deposed.

Thanx

[WAKE_UP_CALL]

Originally posted by mhnew
Iraq is not a threat to Israel and never was under Saddam's rule.

As for this bombing it has been going on during the whole clinton administration and just now coming into focus now that a republican is in power. It has been reported that US and UK had bomber Iraq more times since the war than NATO did in its war with Serbia. This is from a Britiush documentary I saw on Iraq.

To everyone, if you are concerned for Iraqi people please show it but please don't make the mistake of thinking Saddam was or is right. He was and is an autocrat who should be deposed.

Thanx

You need to look at the bigger picture.

Every Muslim country with nuclear weapons is a threat to Israel. This is because the nuclear weapons will stay in the country but governements to last are unpredictable.

You are right in saying that Iraq was never a threat to Israel. However, Saddam has changed his vision and has now become a threat to Israel.


Saddam does not represent Islam as a Muslim.

However, you have to remember that it was the US and UK who made Saddam (i.e. the Iraq-Iran war). And now they are paying the price and making innocent Iraqis suffer.

[mhnew]

They are not paying the price. If they don't have a presence in the Gulf they would pay the price. That's why an excuse is all they need to stay there. Iraq and Saddam are exactly that. Saddam has not become a threat to israel. He would never nuke Israel. No sane Muslim would, and him being a US agent, that is out of question. The same US govt. that has betrayed iraqi opposition figures numerous times just when they had garnered enough support to take down Saddam.

However, I hope that you would not take up your anger at American citizens who are normally kept at dark by their intelligence community about these hidden deals.
The British documentary documented these also.

As for Muslim countries, they are just that. Countries with Muslim majority. Doesn't mean s..t .

If anything is a threat to US, in your sense of the word, it is excessively free-market that it has and the growth of other radical views inside the country.

[WAKE_UP_CALL]

Originally posted by mhnew
They are not paying the price. If they don't have a presence in the Gulf they would pay the price. That's why an excuse is all they need to stay there. Iraq and Saddam are exactly that. Saddam has not become a threat to israel. He would never nuke Israel. No sane Muslim would, and him being a US agent, that is out of question. The same US govt. that has betrayed iraqi opposition figures numerous times just when they had garnered enough support to take down Saddam.

However, I hope that you would not take up your anger at American citizens who are normally kept at dark by their intelligence community about these hidden deals.
The British documentary documented these also.

As for Muslim countries, they are just that. Countries with Muslim majority. Doesn't mean s..t .

If anything is a threat to US, in your sense of the word, it is excessively free-market that it has and the growth of other radical views inside the country.

You are right that free market principles is the language of the US. However, it appears that the only ideology that has become an obstacle to the growth of capitalism is Islam.

Do you agree?

[showkot]

salaam brothers

The issue of Iraq like many other muslim countries is about the American control of muslim lands and resorces. The Kaffir have an ideology called capitalism which directs them to control the resources of other nations and to keep them weak and divided. There objective of bombing Iraq is to make sure the country is totally destroyed in terms of military and infrastructure, So to prevent a sincere Islamic movement from coming to power and establishing the Khilafah.Also Saddam serves the intrests of the west very nicely , as well as Mubarak, Arafat, Fahd, musharraf and Hasina to name just a few

[faruque_ahmed]

If Iraq would have privatise the Iraqi national Oil company back in 1989 as per the proposal of the then visiting "high powerd" deligation, Iraq could remain the DARLING of the Zionised USA and UK! So, the moral of the story is Privatise!! The sunlight to mother's milk!?